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Posted by John Thingstad on 04/21/07 13:50
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:05:02 +0200, John Thingstad
<john.thingstad@chello.no> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:48:18 +0200, Robert Maas, see
> http://tinyurl.com/uh3t <rem642b@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> As a ex employee of Opera I can say that writing a Web Browser is hard!
> It is not so much the parsing of correct HTML as the parsing of incorrect
> HTML that poses the problem. Let's face it. It could be simple.
> If we all used XHTML and the browser aborted with a error message
> when a error occurred. Unfortunately that is hardly the case.
> SGML is more difficult to parse. Then there is the fact that many
> cites rely on errors in the HTML being handled just like in
> Microsoft Explorer. I can't count the number of times I heard that Opera
> was broken just to find that it was a HTML error on the web cite that
> Explorer got around.
>
I am a bit reluctant to reply to this one.
Suffice it to day I was warning him about he difficulties.
I don't know or care about the difficulties about creating a web browser.
Of course that is not exactly true, hence the reluctance.
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